"Attention magazines: If you speak to a 'source' who claims to know me, they don't!" she tweeted. "STOP with your insanity! Tweet me! I'll dm [direct message] you my info!"

Bynes warmed to her theme in a longer message posted on her Twitter page, urging publications to "Contact [her] Personally".

"I'm sick of your insanity!" she wrote. "You CAN NOT talk about someone you don't know."

She added: "You can't state something about me by hearing it through someone I don't know/met once and never spoke to again who now claims to still know me enough to check MY brain and search inside it and find a developed at 27 mental illness without getting a huge lawsuit at your office."

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